PR… PRweb … PRBoost

February 23, 2007 by Affiliate Profit Center
Filed under: Affiliate News, Authority Sites, Search Engine Marketing 

When I’m looking for ideas to blog about, I often head over to PRweb and have a look at what’s new in my niche. You see, the use of press releases is an excellent way to get a buzz going about a new website or a new service or a give-away etc… So, PRweb is an excellent place to keep abreast of your Niche. Now, something else to consider, even though Press Releases have been around long before the web was in existence, the web did bring something new to the world of Press Releases…

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Trackbacks…
One aspect of PRweb that is often overlooked is the fact that many of the press releases will give you a trackback if you reference them on your blog. I’ve used this tactic quite a bit and see a reasonably steady stream of traffic coming from these press releases for sometimes weeks after I make the post.

Further, a look at the source code of these trackbacks reveals that PRweb is NOT using the fabled “NoFollow” tag. Which means, Google CAN follow these links and CAN give you a PR (as in Page Rank) boost. What’s more, PRweb is an authority site with a homepage Page Rank of seven; make no mistake, this is one of the trusted sites that Google spiders everyday!

Now for a real-world example:
Here’s an example of a I received for a post I did back in December:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/12/prweb486905.htm

The PRweb page above has a of 4, if you follow the link through to my post you’ll see that my page has a PR 3 – most of the Page Rank has to be from my PRweb trackback since my Homepage is only a PR 2 :( .

…That’s all I’m saying on this one, use the technique if you want, tell your friends about it… Just please …speak kindly of me ;) .

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    45 Comments on PR… PRweb … PRBoost

    1. PlugIM.com on Fri, 23rd Feb 2007 3:16 pm

      2. PR… PRWeb… PRBoost…

      Here’s a pr boosing tactic that no one else is talking about……

    2. VladTheAffiliate on Sun, 25th Feb 2007 3:11 am

      3. I followed the link to PRWeb and then back to your article…. Your article does not seam to have a link to that press release. I am just curious which url did you ping? The one that is usually provided at the end of press releases?

    3. Affiliate Profit Center on Sun, 25th Feb 2007 11:32 am

      4. Vlad,

      I just pinged the trackback url of the press release – the link in my post goes to the tool that the press release is talking about.

    4. VladTheAffiliate on Sun, 25th Feb 2007 12:23 pm

      5. Yes I notcied that. I tried to do the same with one of my blogs. But about 12 hours later there is no indication on the press release page to acknowledge the ping from my site.

    5. Recall Guy on Sun, 25th Feb 2007 6:13 pm

      6. I’m going to give this a shot, but the blog I want to use is Blogger. I know how to ping a site with my WP blogs, but I don’t see an option with this one.

      Anyone know anything about Blogger? Vlad, do you have an update? Did you use the Trackback URL at the end of the PR?

    6. VladTheAffiliate on Sun, 25th Feb 2007 7:56 pm

      7. Well I have tried to ping both the trackback url as well as the permalink (just in case). I did it well over 20 hours ago and still do not see trackback to my website. I see there possible answers. Either there is something drastically wrong with my site, I did not do it correctly or the trackbacks are going through a sort of an editorial review. At this time can’t either confirm or deny. But I trust Dave on this one, his post is a definite proof to me, I just need to figure out how to do it correctly.

    7. Affiliate Profit Center on Mon, 26th Feb 2007 12:17 pm

      8. Vlad,

      It takes time, do several and wait a few days, you’ll get some good trackbacks.

      Also, it’s the weekend – it’s possible that noone is checking them now.

      Let me know how you make out.

      Dave

    8. VladTheAffiliate on Mon, 26th Feb 2007 1:09 pm

      9. Dave Thanks. I tried again from my blog with a post about Wordtracker, PRWeb gave me tackback right away, but this time I actually included a link to the release itself in the post.

    9. Blog Marketing Videos And Social Marketing Tips To Get Free Targeted Traffic on Fri, 2nd Mar 2007 12:48 am

      10. Get Great High PR Links Easily…

      Easy high PR backlinks – must read linking tactic!

      ……

    10. Maki on Fri, 2nd Mar 2007 10:03 pm

      11. This is a great tip! … Thanks again, Dave.

    11. Steve / EndGame Public Relations on Mon, 2nd Apr 2007 7:31 pm

      12. This is a great idea. PRWeb releases also have a way to comment. I wonder if it would work with comments too…

      Hmmmmm….

      Steve Mullen
      Media Relations and SEO PR Blog

    12. morganusvitus on Thu, 5th Apr 2007 2:58 pm

      13. The site looks great ! Thanks for all your help ( past, present and future !)

    13. Andy Beard on Sat, 7th Apr 2007 7:34 pm

      14. I grabbed myself a PR Web trackback link a couple of days ago, on the post about BlogCatalog

    14. syed on Mon, 9th Apr 2007 5:42 am

      15. hey
      Any other site like prweb which provide trackback links ?

    15. Peter on Wed, 2nd May 2007 12:15 am

      16. I’m thinking about the other end, offering a trackback url to one of my posts. I have a wordpress blog and have a “trackback url” I assume that someone is supposed to click that to get my trackback url, but if I click it i get no url, just reloads the page.

      I have tried it on your blog and get the same, no trackback url. how do I get a trackback url onto my blog?

    16. Affiliate Profit Center on Wed, 2nd May 2007 9:14 am

      17. Peter,

      You just have to copy the trackback url (right click and copy url), then paste that url into the trackback area when you make your post.

      Your blog software will ping that address and the trackbackee will be notified.

      Dave

    17. Perfect Wealth Formula on Sun, 6th May 2007 1:33 am

      18. Great tip! Thanks for that, I’m going to give it a try.

      Daniel

    18. Compagnies on Wed, 6th Jun 2007 10:50 am

      19. Thanks a lot for this great tip !

    19. Shopautodotca Seocontest on Sun, 10th Jun 2007 7:42 pm

      20. What is especially good about this is that you can create posts containing interesting information for your readers, all the while getting good links to your site. I have employed this on a few occasions, but only when the content is applicable to what I am writing about on my blog.

    20. Resell Ebooks on Tue, 12th Jun 2007 7:24 am

      21. Really good tip, many thanks!

    21. Web Traffic on Tue, 12th Jun 2007 7:27 am

      22. This sounds good. I’m going to try it out now. Thanks for the tip.

    22. Internet Marketing Tools on Wed, 13th Jun 2007 3:41 am

      23. That’s some great information!

      I hope that PRWeb will not start nofollow trackback links like a lot of other sites.

      Anyway, it works as long as it works and it’s free (except for the time spent making the trackback post).

    23. Fedora Linux FAQ on Wed, 20th Jun 2007 1:06 pm

      24. That’s a great tip, thank you!

    24. Artem on Fri, 6th Jul 2007 7:45 am

      25. Wow.. it’s a new way of getting High PR links from social services. Thank you for it.

    25. perde on Sun, 29th Jul 2007 11:45 am

      26. Well, thank you for the info I kind of don’t think PR matters as much as it used to be. Trust does.

    26. Konstantin on Tue, 31st Jul 2007 8:36 am

      27. Could we get many trackbacks from it? Or only one?

    27. meet2go.com on Sun, 19th Aug 2007 6:26 pm

      28. Did it help with your traffic?

    28. Outdoor Kitchen Guy on Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 6:37 am

      29. Hi ,
      Followed to your blog from the authority black book. This is awesome. Will try and report results.
      Thanks

    29. Hector Sanchez on Thu, 23rd Aug 2007 9:38 pm

      30. Thanks for such a great resource, thanks for the tip!

    30. Evil on Fri, 7th Sep 2007 8:10 pm

      31. I’ve been reading a lot of blogger blogs for a while now, and this is the first time I’ve come across this this tip. It’s a great one!

    31. Self Hypnosis on Sat, 15th Sep 2007 4:11 am

      32. This is indeed a great way to boost link popularity. I picked up this one from ASC forum some time ago. Let’s just hope spammers don’t catch up with it.

    32. Psychedelic on Mon, 17th Sep 2007 7:58 am

      33. Hmmm, i had never thought about this…. Nice one!

      - Thanks for the free SEO course too!

    33. Internet Marketing Blog on Sun, 7th Oct 2007 8:01 am

      34. Thanks for the tip. I’ll have to give it a try.

    34. Work At Home Guide on Wed, 24th Oct 2007 6:03 am

      35. Dave,

      Thanks for this great tips. I will to try it out now. Thanks again.

    35. Home Study Courses on Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 4:17 pm

      36. I’ve been trying to use trackbacks on PRWEB and they never work. I just get an xml error message

    36. Ahmed on Fri, 30th Nov 2007 6:55 pm

      37. Thanks David for such awesome hints, I will try this out. :)

    37. buja on Mon, 31st Dec 2007 3:25 am

      38. thanks for the tips,, its very important for me

    38. buja on Mon, 31st Dec 2007 3:26 am

      39. thanks for the info

    39. zeitgeist on Sun, 6th Jan 2008 1:27 pm

      40. This is great. Thanks for the info. I’ve been trying and it really works.

    40. Marvin on Sat, 19th Jan 2008 9:31 pm

      41. I’ve read about using a press release as part of link building but I’ve never tried it. I’ve been focused on article marketing, which I assumed accomplished much the same thing. Perhaps it’s coincidence that I just signed up with a PR distributor and have been looking at some various ways to use press releases in my over all strategy. The information provided in this article is certainly useful. Thanks much

    41. FastMoneyMan on Wed, 30th Jan 2008 11:31 pm

      42. Yes, a great tip indeed! A favourite for quick boosts.

    42. Jason on Sat, 26th Apr 2008 9:39 am

      43. very nice post. I like the idea of the track back. I would have thought Google would have counted it as a reciprocal, I guess not than.

    43. Toronto Developer on Tue, 12th Aug 2008 12:25 pm

      44. Great tip, I just checked out PRWeb, I think this will a awesome way to boost page rank. Thanks

    44. car insurance on Sun, 5th Apr 2009 8:40 pm

      45. Many thanks for the tip! I have seen some trackbacks there that didn’t seem like they wrote anything relevant to the atual page, they just sent the ping with their own info :)

    45. Beanie Babies on Mon, 8th Jun 2009 1:31 am

      46. wow, thanks for the tip!

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